Yeah I can agree with most people here. Quit talking to this joker. This smells awfully fishy. If they were gonna charge you they probably would have had it done before you even went back home.
If the police put on their statement though that they actually SAW you trimming that's what you're to have to deal with though. It's your word against the officers unfortunately. Now the report should have a case # and everything on it. As fishy as this is what I would do is contact that particular department and see if you can get a copy of that report FROM THE DEPARTMENT THEMSELVES. Don't use any numbers on the report you have or anything. Just look em up on the net. Call me paranoid but this comes off as some sort of elaborate scam.
Even if it's not your buddy dragged you into this to save his own tail. His lawyer trying to give YOU advise is nothing more than helping his client (your buddy) out. That's what lawyers do. His lawyer trying to get YOU to sign shit is on his CLIENTS behalf to take heat off HIM. Not you. That's what they're paid for. The only people dirtier than police are lawyers. Especially criminal defense lawyers.
Your friend is no longer your friend though. He's rolled over on you. There's very few people I call friends. One in particular I'd have his back to the grave. Back in my wilder years he was offered a chance to roll over on me doing stupid stuff then and didn't. They were so pissed they tacked another charge on him for it =/ That's a friend man. Not one that sings.
I don't wanna get too personal or anything but how do you know and meet this dude? And how long? If you don't want to answer that's cool.
Yes I have quit talking to him and his wife. I have not been charged with anything, only this guy telling me I will be. He is saying that we all need to accept this deal from the DA and take a misdemeanor. Its all or none, either all of us accept or we will be charged with a felony. The other guy who was only mentioned as a trimmer hired a lawyer, his lawyer saw the police report and it only says we were there trimming. Just one sentence about us mentioned in the report, very minor mention in the report. It didn't say the police saw us trimming, just that we were there for that. And they didn't see anyone trimming, nobody was trimming when they came. They asked me and I said no I have nothing to do with what was happening in the backyard. The other guy said yes he was trimming, he is 215 and the grower showed him all the proper scripts that were hanging at the door to go into the grow area. They asked our names, addresses, ss#, phone, they said ok you are free to go. Didn't detain anyone or say they wanted anything to do with us. They were after the guy who owns the place and his wife.
Yes it really does seem like the growers lawyer involved us in this to help his client.
I know the grower because I grew up with his wife. She is a designer and I live in China, so my purpose for visiting them before going back to China was just that I was travelling with my wife to show her CA and I wanted to talk with my friend about fabrics and try helping her get something going with her designs. Her husband was growing and I really don't have any connection to him. Last year they had a child pass, then he got popped for driving with weight in another state, and they just had another baby a few weeks after this went down. So they are doing all they can from keeping her husband out of jail. But they took the risk I guess, they should handle the repercussions. Maybe if the guy said hey man I f***ed up and violating felony probation, help me take some heat, take a minor misdemeanor to help save me from jail, I really might have considered it. But to be shady and just pull me into it is not cool. And like you mentioned, he is paying a high dollar lawyer who probably has connections with the DA, and they worked out something to make everyone happy except us three other 'trimmers', basically us taking a bs charge. Lawyer gets paid, country gets paid, grower gets off and back to growing so they can bust him again next year, DA gets more convictions on the record, we other three that had nothing to do with it get f***ed. Yea maybe its a minor misdemeanor, but one dude is a teacher, we all have clean records and kids, not trying to get into the legal system like this.
